1st Edition
Computer Architectures for Robotics and Automation
Edited By James H. Graham
Copyright 1987
238 Pages
by
CRC Press
Addresses the important topic of providing adequate computational power for the demanding real-time requirements of advanced robotic systems. Shows how many of the recent advances in image processing, control and machine intelligence can be incorporated into robotic systems in real time. Explains how innovative, specialized computer architectures that include both parallelism and special purpose... Read more
Foreword, Section I Introduction, High Performance Computer Architecture for Robotics and Automation, Section II: Special Architectures for Control of Robots and Automation, Robot Motion Control with CPAC: A Concurrent Processes Architecture for Control; Systolic architecture for Computation of the Jacobian for Robot Manipulators, Section III: Special Architectures for Sensing and Vision, PIPE: A Specialized Computer architecture for Robot Vision; Architectures for Robot Vision.../part contents
Biography
James H. Graham is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Louisville. He received both is M.S. and his Ph.D. from Perdue University. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a member of the Association of Computer Machinery, and is a registered professional engineer. His research interests include robotics, artificial intelligence and distributed computing.
